a Chilean architect
I work in research and implementation of public policies for social housing, deprived neighbourhoods and precarious territories, linking it to school and university education projects with an interdisciplinary and active citizenship approach for the co-creation of neighborhoods.
I find it necessary and comfortable to work with people from other disciplines and backgrounds. That is why I have worked side by side with neighborhood leaders, philosophers, economists, sociologists, social workers, actors, geographers, and lawyers, among others.
Housing
Precarious Settlements
Deprived Neighbourhoods
Urban Regeneration
Education
Fieldwork
qualified
2018
Mixed Methods in
Social Research Diploma
Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Santiago, Chile.
2006-2013
Architecture.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC); Santiago, Chile.
experienced
Mar. 2017- Apr. 2021 / 4 years and 1 months
Laboratorio 9x18
RESEARCHER
laboratorio9x18.arquitectura.uc.cl
Researcher and management support for research projects on neighborhood regeneration and social housing projects.
Research cluster that explores processes of growth of the city “inward”, recycling urban land without expelling its residents, integrating the logic of family organization and enhancing the collective dimension of housing and its capacity to produce the city.
Mar. 2017- Mar. 2019 / 2 years and 1 months
NGO Fundación Vivienda
ARCHITECT
Designer and project manager of permanent housing, emergency houses and community intervention projects, developing diagnostics and participatory research.
Private and non-profit organization with 53 years serving vulnerable families, helping to solve their housing problem, promoting habitat as a fundamental right in integrated and equitable cities.
Mar. 2015- Feb. 2017 / 2 years3
CEDEUS
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Research assistant and management support in research projects on housing indicators, vulnerable neighbourhoods and sustainability.
Built Environment Cluster of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development. Research centre that seeks to contribute to the debate on the main urban sustainability challenges that Chilean cities face in the twenty-first century.
Mar. 2013- Feb.2015 / 2 years
Architecture Faculty PUC
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Research assistant in research projects on: social housing and interdisciplinary teaching on work in vulnerable neighbourhoods.
The Faculty of Architecture of PUC was created in 1894 becoming the first formal school in the country. Today it is ranked 1st in Latin America according to QS World University Rankings 2019.
research
2020-2021
Local government management support model for regeneration of 9x18 neighbourhoods
RESEARCHER Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
2020-2021
Housing, citizenship and aspirations: neoliberalism, people’s self-production and politics of daily life in Greater Santiago
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
At research project “Ethnographies of neoliberalism and aspiration”
2019-2020
City dreams. Construction of imaginaries from experiential participation
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
2019
Towards a comprehensive
urban-housing regeneration model with densification in 9x18 neighborhoods
RESEARCHER
Laboratorio 9x18 PUC
2018
The house we dream of
FACILITATOR & RESEARCHER
Workshop with residents for the project “Pilot Project for Urban Regeneration of the 9x18 neighborhood”
2016-2017
Sustainability at neighborhood scale: Re-visiting Quiero mi Barrio program
RESEARCH ASSISTANT. CEDEUS PUC
2016
Urban regeneration and densification of lots 9x18: preliminary project in the nighbourhood of La Faena, Peñalolén
RESEARCHER carried out by the Center for Public Policies for the CEHU Housing Studies Commission of MINVU.
2015
Academic Certificate in Vulnerable Territories: an interdisciplinary work opportunity for students and teachers
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PUC.
2014-2015
Neighborhood improvement and establishment of close families: interdisciplinary study of feasibility of a public policy proposal at the local level
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PUC.
2013-2014
Development of methodologies for interdisciplinary work in Vulnerable Territories
RESEARCH ASSISTANT PUC.
2013
Cadaster of social condominiums in height
RESEARCH ASSISTANT carried out by the Center for Public Policies for the CEHU Housing Studies Commission of MINVU.
projects
2019
From the roots of Joao Goulart together to the progress of tomorrow
ARCHITECT House Improvement Program, Line of Community Projects in Housing Precariousness NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2019
The extraordinary of everyday life: Regeneration of 9x18 Neighborhood
DESIGNER XXI Biennial, Santiago Chile “Free Architecture Fair. The common and the ordinary“
2019
Training on Small Condominium Subsidy and its context for neighborhood leaders of the National Federation of Settlers FENAPO
FACILITATOR Laboratorio 9x18.
2018-2019
Interinstitutional Roundtable for Neighborhood Regeneration 9x18
COORDINATION ASSISTANT Laboratorio 9x18
2017-2019
Densification on Own Sites “La Granja” Definitive Housing Line
ARCHITECT NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2017-2019
State Subsidized Housing Project Paine Definitive Housing Line
ARCHITECT NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2017-2019
House evaluation of families of the Emergency Housing Line
ARCHITECT & RESEARCHER NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2017-2019
Training for institutional construction of emergency houses
ARCHITECT NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2017-2019
Union for Progress: Los Álamos + Santa Raquel
ARCHITECT Home Improvement Program, Line of Community Projects in Housing Precariousness NGO Fundación Vivienda.
2017
Energy Efficiency Manual for Emergency Homes of Fundación Vivienda
ARCHITECT COUNTERPART. NGO Fundación Vivienda, Positive Planet international and Foundatión ENGIE.
2016-2017
Network of Study Centers in Sustainable Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean-REDEUS
MANAGMENT SUPPORT CEDEUS PUC
2010
Development of adaptations to social housing for blind couple in order to opt for a supplementary disability subsidy.
ARCHITECTURE INTERNSHIP. NGO Techo, Definitive Housing Area.
publications
2020
Towards a comprehensive urban-housing regeneration model with densification in 9×18 neighborhoods / Hacia un modelo integral de regeneración urbano-habitacional con densificación en barrios tipo 9×18.
Tapia, R., Araos, C., Forray, R., Gil, D., y Muñoz, S. (2020). En: Centro de Políticas Públicas UC (ed.) Propuestas para Chile. Concurso de Políticas Públicas 2019. Santiago: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, pp. 319-351.
2018
Proposals for urban renewal in residential neighborhoods of the 9×18 type in Santiago de Chile / Propuestas para la renovación urbana en barrios residenciales del tipo 9×18 en Santiago de Chile.
Rodrigo Tapia, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Walker. (10 septiembre 2018). Limaq, 4, 165-191.
conferences
2019
Towards a post-neoliberal policy of neighborhood regeneration of the pre-dictatorship in Chile / Hacia una política posneoliberal de regeneración de barrios de la predictadura en Chile
Rosanna Forray, Sebastián Muñoz. COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL: Habiter les villes latino-américaines : Nouvelles approches et interdisciplinarité dans les recherches urbaines, 17 et 18 octobre 2019,Paris. Centre de Recherche sur l’Habitat Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
2018
Lots 9×18 - A new opportunity in housing policy. / El lote 9x18 – Una nueva oportunidad en la política habitacional.
Sebastián Muñoz, Juan Correa. (2018). En Intersecciones proceedings(1143-1148). Santiago de Chile: Felipe Encinas, Gonzalo Arce, Pablo Fuentes.
2018
Urban regeneration in pericentral areas: Micro-densification pilot in 9×18 neighborhoods / Regeneración urbana en zonas pericentrales: Piloto de Micro-densificación en Barrios 9×18.
Rodrigo Tapia, Cristián Robertson, José Di Girolamo, Andrea Urbina, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Walker. (2018). En Intersecciones proceedings (1114-1121). Santiago de Chile: Felipe Encinas, Gonzalo Arce, Pablo Fuentes.
2018
Teaching, Research and Project at the service of Urban Regeneration and Public Policies / Docencia, Investigación y Proyecto al servicio de la Regeneración Urbana y las Políticas Públicas
Rodrigo Tapia, Sebastián Muñoz, Andrea Urbina, Francisco Walker. XIV Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Escuelas de Urbanismo y Planificación: Las Universidades Latinoamericanas y la Nueva Agenda Urbana Santiago de Chile, Campus Lo Contador Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 22-23-24 de Agosto 2018
2016
Pilot project of family condominiums in 9×18 sites / Proyecto piloto en Condominios familiares en sitios 9×18.
Rodrigo Tapia, Carolina Salinas, Daniella Innocenti, Pía Mora, Sebastián Muñoz, Francisco Walker. (2016). En Intersecciones proceedings(529-533). Santiago de Chile: Felipe Encinas, Andrea Weschler.
classes
2020
Etnography
TEACHER ASSISTANT Master in Sociology PUC
2016
Habitability in Vulnerable Territories
TEACHER ASSISTANT Architecture PUC
2017
Healthy habitat
TEACHER ASSISTANT Architecture and Medicine PUC
2014-2016
Knowing and building my neighborhood
TEACHER The Center for the Study and Development of Talent, Year 8 Key Stage 3 PENTA UC.
2015
My neighborhood: complex and diverse habitat
TEACHER The Center for the Study and Development of Talent, Year 9 Key Stage 3 PENTA UC.
volunteer work
2017
Spanish teacher for Haitians Immigrants.
TEACHER Migrant jesuit service.
2010
Post-earthquake damage cadastre.
CATASTRATOR Registration and systematization of damage caused by the earthquake in Talca, Curicó and Santiago. Faculty of Architecture PUC
2010
OpenChapel-Stage for Tres Cruces Community, Coquimbo Region.
ARCHITECT Design and construction of “Servants For Chile”-PUC In association with LP Products company, prefabricated wooden architectural materials.
2010
Volunteer Social Coordinator: Southeast Zone.
COORDINATOR Coordinator of the Social Habilitation Plan, community projects and coordination of the application for permanent housing in the NGO Techo, the Social Habilitation program. Fourteen slums of the communes: Peñaflor, Talagante, Padre Hurtado, Calera de Tango, Isla de Maipo, El monte.
2008-2009
Slum Social Coordinator: Villa Ferro, Commune of Padre Hurtado.
COORDINATOR Insertion in the camp and implementation of the Plan of Social Habilitation of NGO Techo. Weekly meetings with the community in the creation and joint planning of community projects and application for a permanent housing project.
2009
Summer program monitor for children at social risk.
MONITOR El Castillo neighborhood, Santiago. Jesus Child Foundation
2008
Diagnosis of housing and training for residents on housing improvement subsidies.
INTERVIEWER joint work of the School of Design and Architecture PUC with the municipality of Maipú.
it through
Location of neighborhoods 9x18 with respect to the Metro de Santiago transport system (Fundación Vivienda, 2018) in "Lots 9×18 - A new opportunity in housing policy".
Interdiscipline
Weekly university class in the field. Group work at the neighbourhood’s headquarters after making a diagnosis in houses with neighbours.
Fieldwork
Post interview with neighbourhood leaders five years after the closure of the “Quiero mi Barrio” programme. For a study of the programme’s sustainability.
Interviews
Guidance and participative decision making with extended households living in precarious housing, on 1 or 2 floor typologies for on-site densification.
Guidance
Work on a model of neighbourhood densification on cubes representing housing, services and green areas. With young people from 6 to 17 years old.
Playing
Activity with monopoly game with unequal basic conditions and proposal of alternative games that correct the inequalities.
Games
House evaluation of families of the Emergency Housing Line NGO Fundación Vivienda. House evaluation of families of the Emergency Housing Line
Evaluations
Evaluation of different building typologies and land occupation for the construction of family condominiums on their own site.
Iteration
Spanish language classes to Haitian immigrants. Volunteer work with Jesuit Migrant Service work material.
Communication
Modelling of different possible densities in 9x18 neighbourhoods.
Modelling
Construction of a wood prefabricated emergency house. For families in precarious housing in the metropolitan area of Santiago.
Building
Introductory lesson on neighbourhood and urban planning for students of Year 8 Key Stage 3.
Education
Study of the dynamics of the use of the home by the couple of the prostrate elderly and their caregiver. In the Healthy Habitat course.
Understanding
University campus puzzle to be put together as a group against the clock, which will then be worked on in a guided tour of the campus. Marking milestones and places recognized and unknown by students.
Motivating
Workshop with demountable models to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different building typologies with extended households.
Consulting
Collage as one of the initial activities with families of the community project to open imaginaries about improvements in the neighborhood “Our neighborhood of dreams”
Dreaming
Instruction on expansion possibilities for recent owners of subsidized rural social housing.
Instructing
Participatory diagnosis with neighbourhood leaders and their families on concerns and potentialities of the neighbourhood and its surroundings.
Participation
Final coursework. An event in which learning is presented to the residents of the neighbourhood. Feedback and retribution is generated with the neighbours.
Retribution
Neighborhood planning design with children of Year 9 Key Stage 3. Each group designs a sector of a large neighborhood based on the regeneration of an old air base in the urban area of Santiago.
Discussions
Group training with older adults for design work with a model representing prefabricated adaptable housing. Then we would work with each family in particular.
Training
Representation of different scales of common neighbourhood concern. Introduction of the “ vecinal piece “ in the plans of neighborhood regeneration.
Research
Workshop on the design of social housing adaptations with a tactile model for a blind couple.To qualify for complementary state subsidy.
Listening
Session of the Interinstitutional Roundtable for Neighborhood Regeneration 9x18
Cooperation
Neighborhood scenarios for the Santiago Architecture Biennial. Comparative model with: origins, current situation, intensive densification and regeneration on a medium scale.
Exhibitions
Genograph and occupation of the house by an extended family, together with the productive activities developed inside the house.
Genographs
Focus group with close families living with the owners of the land to study the willingness to build family condominiums on their own site.
Focus groups
Advantages and conditions of the implementation of the state subsidy for the construction of a family condominium on their own plor. Before and after representation.
Proposals
Interview through neighborhood commented tour.
Walks
Methodology for grouping social housing complexes at altitude for national cadastre.